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Theory of regional stability as a public good: examples from Southern Africa
Nota, Fungisai - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 4 (2009) 2, pp. 6-14
The article examines the interaction of countries in the same region when making efforts to achieve stability. The … leader in regional initiatives that foster stability is likely to be the most vulnerable member of the region because in the … stability, the regional public good, giving its neighbors the opportunity to free-ride. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557205
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Regional Public Goods in Finance, Trade and Infrastructure
Perry, Guillermo - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2013
institutions (the G20, the Financial Stability Board, the Basle Committees, the IMF, the WTO, etc) may enhance the influence of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010828281
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Sharing the greenhouse: Inducing cooperation in a global common
Eldridge, Damien S - Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe Business … - 2008
Global warming is an example of a global tragedy of the commons. The atmosphere is a global common property resource. The global nature of this resource makes global warming a particularly difficult problem to solve. The reason for this is that there is no world government that can introduce and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541562
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Social motives in intergroup conflict
Weisel, Ori; Ro'i Zultan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We experimentally test the social motives behind individual participation in intergroup conflict by manipulating the framing and symmetry of conflict. We find that behavior in conflict depends on whether one is harmed by actions perpetrated by the out-group, but not on one's own influ- ence on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695878
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Independence Axioms for Water Allocation
Brink, Rene van den; Estevez-Fernandez, Arantza; Laan, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This discussion paper led to the article with the same title in 'Social Choice and Welfare' (2014), 43, 173-194.<P> We consider the problem of sharing water among agents located along a river. Each agent has quasi-linear preferences over river water and money, where the benefit of consuming an...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255637
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Assignment Games with Externalities
Gudmundsson, Jens; Habis, Helga - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2013
regarding the others' reaction following a deviation. The relationship of stability and optimality is also discussed, as is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734770
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On Stable Equilibria in Discrete-Space Social Interaction Models
Akamatsu, Takashi; Fujishima, Shota; Takayama, Yuki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
equilibria for any degree of discretization, which necessitates a stability analysis of equilibria. We present a general … framework for characterizations of equilibria and their stability under a broad class of evolutionary dynamics by using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118534
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Bottleneck congestion and distribution of work start times: The economics of staggered work hours revisited
Takayama, Yuki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Since the seminal work of Henderson (1981), a number of studies examined the effect of staggered work hours by analyzing models of work start time choice that consider the trade-off between negative congestion externalities and positive production externalities. However, these studies described...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112352
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Dynamic Stability and Reform of Political Institutions
Lagunoff, Roger - EconWPA - 2005
Perfect equilibria of dynamic political games. The present paper examines issues of stability and reform when such equilibria … exist. Which environments tend toward institutional stability? Which tend toward reform? We show that when political rules … decisions alone. More generally, we identify sufficient conditions for stability and reform in terms of recursive self selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062355
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Rent seeking and regime stability in rentier states
Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Naghavi, Alireza - In: European Journal of Political Economy 27 (2011) 4, pp. 740-748
Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural … source of conflict and the rentier state view which emphasizes the role of resource rents in promoting peace and stability … struggle. We demonstrate that the associated increased cost of conflict may in fact promote regime stability. The peaceful …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574393